Koch
Vera
WHITE PLAINS – A former Yonkers City Police officer pled guilty
in Westchester County Court on Thursday to felony perjury and two counts
of misdemeanor official misconduct.
Also, Yonkers Detective Christian Koch pled guilty to one felony count
of perjury.
On March 21, 2014, Neil Vera, a former Yonkers Housing Unit officer, working
with Koch, a narcotics detective, swore falsely in a statement that was
made in an application for a search warrant for 141 School Street, apartment
3 in Yonkers. The false statement was made with intent to mislead a city
court judge in the performance of his official functions by signing the
warrant.
Also on May 20, 2014, Vera asked a person identified to the grand jury
to lie to investigators and provide a false statement to police officers
of the Internal Affairs Division.
He asked that individual to make a false statement to internal affairs
investigators indentifying himself/herself as an individual who had performed
controlled narcotics buys at the address in support of the search warrant,
when that was completely false.
Vera will be sentenced next month; Koch in September.
They each face up to four years in prison.
